October 2020
Spotlight on: COVID-19 and the Deepening Economic Insecurity, Racial Inequity
Fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic impacts low-income Black and brown New Yorkers the hardest
Contributors: Sophie Collyer, Sonia Huq, Kahlen Washington, Christopher Wimer
Issues Areas: Covid 19, Racial Equity
Poverty Tracker data shows how the early impacts of the economic crisis driven by COVID-19 played out — both in terms of who was most affected and how they were faring previously. These early impacts are troubling but in-line with past economic crises. New Yorkers who were already in precarious economic positions bore the brunt of the initial economic fallout associated with COVID-19, and New Yorkers of color are overrepresented among those who have endured these losses.